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According to information from Russian Geographic Society, excavations of next kurgan began in Tuva, at the Eerbek-10 archeological site. The work is led by TIGI archeologist Nikolai Smirnov. A burial of Kok-el culture(i.e. Hunnic-Sarmatian era, approximately 2nd-6th century of Common Era, just before the Turkic period). The burial yielded human bones - a young woman or a young man, who was presumably covered with a skin of a horse ( horse skull and bones were found as indirect evidence). It is already obvious that the site was partially robbed. It is planned to finish the preliminary study of the finds several days, and to provide a more accurate date.
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